Method of ornamenting textiles



D e :.26,1939. IF.HEFTYI 2,1 ,593

METHOD OF ORNAMENTING TEXTILES Filed Aug. 25, 1936 Patented Dec. 26,1939

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,134,593 METHOD OF ORNAMENTING TEXTILES Switzerland Application August 25, 1936, Serial No. 97,850 In Switzerland June 5, 1936 1 Claiim (Cl. 41-36) This invention relates-to methods of fixing fibrous material or other suitable substances on textiles.

According to the invention, the method of producing novel patterning efiects on textiles as fabrics knitted ware or warps by fixing-fibrous materials or other suitable omamenting substances, such as powdered metal, pigments, metal flakes or the like is performed by applying the omamenting substance to be'deposited in a discontinuous or contiguous layer to one face of the textile-goods and pressing the omamenting substance thereon, whereupon the goods is printed on its back face, in conformity with the pattern to be produced, with an adhesive such as glue,

lacquer, artificial resin' solution, albumin etc., the

printing being preferably effected by means of a correspondingly engraved printing roller, so that the pressed layer of omamenting substance positioned between thegoods and a supporting web menting material is removed mechanically, for example, by brushing, suction, combing or the like.

The apparatus according to the invention for carrying out the method described comprises a guide roller which passes the textile goods together with the omamenting material pressed thereon by a pressure rolle'r to a printing roller which applies the "fixing agent to the back of the. fabric in conformity with the patternto be pro- 35 -duced. a

In the accompanying drawing two construc tional forms of the device for carrying out the method according to the invention are illustrated by way of example only, like numerals denoting 40 likep The web of textile goods to be patterned is designated by numeral I, and the omamenting material 2 to be applied is pressed'onand cohered to the textile between a .pressureroller8 45 and an endless supporting web 5 which is slung about a roller 4. The textile in passing around vroller 4 is contacted on its back face by an engraved printing roller 6 which prints the back face with the adhesive agent at the portions to be patterned by deposits of the omamenting ma-' terial, the adhesive agent being supplied from 5 .out of a container 'I'by means of supply rollers 8.

the surplus ornamentinymeans, which does not adhere, is removed by mechanical means.

Fig. 2 shows a variant construction of the de- I I vice shown in Fig. 1 differing from the latter in 15 so far as the drying device is omitted and the goods is wound immediately after being printed on a roller ll after passing around guide roller I0, thus in a tight coil, in which-way part of the deposited omamenting means is transferred to 20 the back face of the textile goods which thus will have the omamenting means sticking to both of its faces.

v The fabric .thus prepared is then unwound and dried and the surplus material can also in this case be removed in the manner de- 25 scribed above.

H I claim:

A method of omamenting textiles, comprising the steps of applying'loose omamenting material to a faceof a web oftextile in -asubstantially contiguous layer, printing said textile withan adhesive for said material on the back face of said textile in conformity with the pattern to be produced by deposits of said material on the front face thereof, winding said textile immediately after the printing'operation in a tight coil thereby transferring part of said deposited'materiai to the back face of said textile, drying the adhesive to permanently fix said omamenting material in position on said textile on both faces 40 thereof, and mechanically removing the surplus omamenting material from both faces of said textile at the portions thereof where it is not adhered thereto.

' FRIDOLIN HEI'I'L- 

